I think the idea of Internet radio programs using MP3 is great, because you can download them and then listen to them offline at your leisure (or in segments). Why doesn't Psuedo OnLine do something like this as well?
Regardless of whether you approve of the marketing tactics going on here, this is an interesting technology... albiet one that has been around for quite a while.
Let me understand... it works by modulating (or something like that) the AC signal in your home's loop, to communicate between your various applicances. Most homes have multiple circuits, so how do you control the equipment on the other circuit? I guess you could plug another controller module into your PC and plug that into an outlet on another circuit, which is probably going to be on the other side of the house! Are there any other solutions, or am I missing something.
I was under the impression that ETrade ran on BEA's TUXEDO, and TUXEDO does not support anything other than C, C++ or COBOL (yeech!) for server side applications. Yes you can write TUXEDO clients in Java using Jolt, which is horrid.
Are you talking about E*Trade's web interface or their trading engine or both (it wouldn't surprise me if the web interface is nice Java, while the trading engine is cold-hard C or COBOL in TUXEDO!).
The unfortunate thing is... it is very hard to convince people that Java is ready for enterprise OLTP... I'm not convinced myself! We're writing a product using TUXEDO / C and embedded SQL, I would dearly love to write it in Java, but until someone can prove that it won't run like a dog (or at least, not run so slow that the hardware upgrades bankrupt our customers!) AND it will sensibly support XA/2pc (ob this is the responsibility of the Java app server) then we have to stay with the tried and true proven technology!
I think the proliferation of Java app servers, esp open-source ones, is great... but how ready are they for high-performance apps? Do any of these open source app servers support integration with HotSpot, Tower J, the IBM java hpc or for that matter, Cygnus' gcj project?
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I think the idea of Internet radio programs using MP3 is great, because you can download them and then listen to them offline at your leisure (or in segments). Why doesn't Psuedo OnLine do something like this as well?
Regardless of whether you approve of the marketing tactics going on here, this is an interesting technology... albiet one that has been around for quite a while.
Let me understand... it works by modulating (or something like that) the AC signal in your home's loop, to communicate between your various applicances. Most homes have multiple circuits, so how do you control the equipment on the other circuit? I guess you could plug another controller module into your PC and plug that into an outlet on another circuit, which is probably going to be on the other side of the house! Are there any other solutions, or am I missing something.
Egads!
jrw
I was under the impression that ETrade ran on BEA's TUXEDO, and TUXEDO does not support anything other than C, C++ or COBOL (yeech!) for server side applications. Yes you can write TUXEDO clients in Java using Jolt, which is horrid.
Are you talking about E*Trade's web interface or their trading engine or both (it wouldn't surprise me if the web interface is nice Java, while the trading engine is cold-hard C or COBOL in TUXEDO!).
The unfortunate thing is... it is very hard to convince people that Java is ready for enterprise OLTP... I'm not convinced myself! We're writing a product using TUXEDO / C and embedded SQL, I would dearly love to write it in Java, but until someone can prove that it won't run like a dog (or at least, not run so slow that the hardware upgrades bankrupt our customers!) AND it will sensibly support XA/2pc (ob this is the responsibility of the Java app server) then we have to stay with the tried and true proven technology!
Egads!
jrw
Folks,
I think the proliferation of Java app servers, esp open-source ones, is great... but how ready are they for high-performance apps? Do any of these open source app servers support integration with HotSpot, Tower J, the IBM java hpc or for that matter, Cygnus' gcj project?
jrw